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Still unsure about the actual cause of the ugly incident, police in Leipzig had to intervene in an altercation that quickly got out of control on Sunday when some 100 masked Autonome began demolishing winter service vehicles and setting up barricades in the street with massive amounts of a mysterious and icy white substance they had been able to organize on and even pick up from the street.



Some believe the so-called “snow” or “snowball” fight began after a shoving match between two young part-time scientists about the validity of the global warming theory got out of hand, a theory which is of course nevertheless absolutely and positively valid in the most valid of ways, believe me, absolutely, honest, don’t get me wrong or anything, I’m just sayin’, okay?

Leipziger police eventually succeeded in herding away a large number of the abdominal “snowmen” toward the outskirts of town and even more “snow” by using torches and dogs and solar energy or something.

„Dadurch kam der Verkehr in einer Fahrtrichtung zeitweise zum Erliegen.“

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Is this what you would call objective reporting in a free society? No, of course you wouldn’t. It’s the typical greasy spoon and heavy-handed propaganda fare you would and should rightly expect from the Iranian regime’s very own “private” news agency (after all, this is Iran’s war going on down in Gaza right now, you certainly can’t expect them to report objectively here).



But reading this, I can’t help but wonder a bit anyway, especially in light of the latest Schmierkampange (smear campaign) in the never ending story that, well, will never end here in Germany.

Knowing how distorted the German view of reality appears whenever looking at the results of serious surveys done about honest issues by actual agencies in the real world, it makes me wonder just how distorted these alleged SAT1 poll results the FARS New Agency refers to (a poll which I can’t seem to find anywhere, you?) really and truly are.

My gut feeling is that these numbers are remarkably accurate, at least for the moment. But it could just be all that greasy spoon fare I just ate.

“A die-hard supporter of the murderous Zionist regime, Merkel has faced harsh criticism by several leading lawmakers for blaming Hamas in the Israeli genocide in Gaza.”

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Beautiful German of the week.



Because somebody has to admire them.

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While plans for a German unity monument are finally “taking shape” some, uh, twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans, quite predictably, are bitching and moaning yet once again about how truly awful and dreadful German unification-reunification-take-your-pick-its-both really and truly is, was and always will be.



In a nutshell, the latest survey says that those Germans in THE EAST feel that they have been exploited while those Germans in THE WEST clearly feel that those in THE EAST haven’t been exploited enough. But you already knew all this, of course. Only 46 percent of those asked from THE EAST feel that their expectations of 1989 have been met. And only 40 percent of those from THE WEST feel that way.

And the GDR never existed either, by the way. Or at least that’s how some of those from THE EAST with hurt feelings feel about “a palace-shaped mall” (sounds like Heart-Shaped Box to me) which will now be erected at the exact same location where the old Hohenzollern Stadtschloss AND the infamous Communist Palace of the Republic once stood. It will be built in addition to the unity monument, by the way. You know, the one which hasn’t been build yet either and nobody wants neither.

It goes like this in Berlin: The Communists rip down a hated symbol of Prussian imperialism which pisses off everybody in the west because they used to have royals, too. Then the country gets back together again after a forty year spat and the anti-Communists rip down the hated symbol of German communism which had been built in its place. So now the new palace-shaped mall will be built on the rubble of that and this is guaranteed to piss off everybody on both sides (they only do East and West over here, by the way, like we used to do North and South). And this makes everybody happy. Do you get it now?

It’s a nice way to start off the New Year, I guess. If you’re a German, I mean. Or at least it’s one way to start off the New Year, off. So have a happy one. Or have an unhappy one, if you want. It all comes out to the same thing with youz guyz.

"Die Euphorie, die nach dem Mauerfall herrschte, ist weitgehend verflogen."

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We’ll save the whales later. Speaking of alternative energy sources… All those old Christmas trees that Berliners toss out the window when they do the knut thing may not produce as much electricity as wind energy in the USA does, but 700 homes are still 700 homes.



After Berlin’s city sanitation department BSR starts picking up the 2,100 tons (400,000 trees) of tossed Christmas cheer next week, they get hacked up into little wood chunks and incinerated at Spandau’s Reuter power plant, producing enough energy to warm and electrify 700 Berlin homes for a year.

But remember to take the ornaments off first though, okay?

„Durch den Einsatz der Hackschnitzel spart Vattenfall den Angaben zufolge etwa 1200 Tonnen Steinkohle und damit 2800 Tonnen Kohlendioxid ein.“ Oder auch nicht.

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Germany’s hopes of remaining the world leader in wind-generated electricity, I mean. Of all nations, those awful energy hogs over in US-America have had another record wind industry year (the third in a row) and just passed Germany’s 22,300 megawatt production mark, making them wind kings of the world or something.



Why, that’s enough energy to keep 5.5 million American homes (that haven’t been sold yet) up-and-running for a whole year, or Las Vegas going for probably over half an hour. Not that Las Vegas is actually going anywhere or anything.

And of course the competition never sleeps elsewhere, either. And to make matters worse, or better, depending upon how you look at them, the dollar is going tango uniform again, this time after the Fed recently slashed it’s key interest-rate target to zero, or pretty damned close. For ultra-mega-export countries like Germany, their stronger currency in relation to the dollar makes their exports less competitive.

And then there was Germany’s tough year in that big league bad and ungrateful international political world out there, too. But at least they got Obama, right? Let’s see how long that romance lasts.

“No, we can’t.”

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